Category: Lever

Get your 2018 started off on the right foot with these recruiting events. There’s something for every part of your hiring team. 103 Recruiting Hacks to Make 2018 Your Most Productive Year Yet — A four-part webinar series hosted by Lever. January 10th: 24 Recruiting Hacks for Employer Branding and Candidate Experience, feat. Ariel Jolo of Medallia and Michelle Hart, formerly of Whisper. January 17th: 31 Recruiting Hacks for Sourcing and Diversity Recruiting, feat. Zeenat Bhamani of Netflix. January 24th: 25 Recruiting Hacks for Partnering with Hiring Managers and Data-Driven Recruiting, feat. Melissa Trahan of Thread and Pat Morey of LevelUp January 31st: 23 Recruiting Hacks for Interviewing and Closing Candidates Register for the series today and get caught up on what you missed. ASU +[…]

This is a guest post from Maya Humes and the Lever team, who recently released their Diversity and Inclusion Handbook. Attracting, recruiting, and retaining diverse candidates isn’t rocket science, nor is it a walk in the park. It is a constant work in progress that – if done right – rewards you with tangible successes along the way. As long as you keep experimenting, iterating, and requesting input from both candidates and employees, it’s possible to build the diverse and inclusive culture you seek step-by-step. Lever’s new 70-page Diversity & Inclusion Handbook lists countless strategies to help teams do exactly that. Currently comprised of 50 percent women and 53 percent women in leadership, we share the journey that brought us here[…]

Most people don’t think recruiting is a particularly sexy space. (In fact, even that first sentence might be an HR violation). We feel differently. In reality, [Tweet “Hiring the right team has the largest impact on the outcome of any mission.”] At Drafted, we believe that work is a part of life. This means that work should be delightful, rewarding, inspiring, and most importantly, fun. For this reason, it’s not enough to be satisfied with tools that stop at simply getting results. We build hiring tools that go the extra mile. They don’t just get you good results at a low cost – they’re also delightful to use and actually make your work fun. Hiring is more than just a[…]

The other day, we at Lever published an infographic from our most recent recruiting benchmarks research for startups and SMBs with fresh insight into how referrals dominate the recruiting process. The moral of the story was this: Referrals get hired at way higher rates (8 percent of all referrals are ultimately hired, versus 1.2 percent across all candidates) than candidates from any other origin. It’s time to step up your employee referral program (ERP). If you don’t have an ERP yet, you’re past due on the time to set one up. To help you get your employee referral program firing on all cylinders (and prevent your ERP from turning into a DERP), we invited Vinayak Ranade, CEO of the referral[…]